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[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roberto,

On 25 Sep 2013, at 04:51, Roberto Spadim <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> please, if mariadb got enterprise version, don't call it "mariadb
> enterprise" like mysql did, create another name...
> some users could tell "mariadb enterprise version is good, but mariadb
> community version isn't.", that happens to mysql here in Brazil at
> least
> about numbers, i don't think it's a problem for community, who care
> about download numbers? this don't make a good software :) and mariadb
> is very nice, better than mysql in many cases :) that's the point :)
> 

The MariaDB Server is and always will be opensource. 

I notice that mariadb.com talks about an Enterprise offering ("The new gold standard for database high availability" -- ?!?), which from my understanding has nothing to do with the MariaDB Server. Your feedback is important, and I tend to agree with you - it sure does sound confusing. I will pass this feedback on to the person responsible for this.

And with regards to your topic on download numbers -- note that they're hugely not a representation of our userbase. We cannot count users in distributions, large scale installs, etc. We also naturally see a huge discrepancy when it comes to opt-in statistics:
	http://mariadb.org/feedback_plugin/stats/server_count_by_month/

Anyway, thank you for your valuable feedback and lets all focus on making MariaDB better!

cheers,
-colin

> 2013/9/24 Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> On 18 Sep 2013, at 03:57, MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am with Kristian.
>>> 
>>> If you want non-company people to contribute then you need to make clear the boundaries between .com and .org. We all want the .com efforts to succeed but source code, docs, KB and download counts all seem like things that would be on the .org side.
>>> 
>> 
>> We definitely want non-company people to contribute as MariaDB is an opensource project. This is a time of transition, so changes are happening albeit slowly. I myself am not quite sure where the .com / .org separation heads, but there is plenty of discussion and you can trust that I am on the side of the community and the .org world.
>> 
>> The bonus is that askmonty.org has been removed!
>> 
>> Stay tuned for more Mark.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> -colin
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>>> It's 17.09 today, and we've hit 50,160 total downloads (this number is
>>>> considered company-internal, we don't share this number externally).
>>> 
>>> "company-internal"? What have you been smoking? Colin, you are supposed to be
>>> the community guy for crying out lout :-(
>>> 
>>> This is *completely*, utterly unacceptable.
>>> 
>>> MariaDB is a community project. We are about openness. We are about working
>>> together, all of us, to create a better world. We are *not* some individuals
>>> or companys playground.
>>> 
>>> So no, the community's usage numbers of its own project is not "internal",
>>> thank you very much.
>>> 
>>> So please cut out the crap already.
>>> 
>>> - Kristian.
>>> 
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> Roberto Spadim
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